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Recent IBM research finds an “AI oversight gap” among organizations that had experienced data breaches. [contact-form-7] “Consider this: a staggering 97% of breached organizations that experienced an AI-related security incident say they lacked proper AI access controls,” the company said in promoting findings from its Cost of a Data Breach Report. In addition, 63% of the surveyed...
Exports from the European Union’s 27 member states to the United States reportedly dropped 10% year over year in June due to new U.S. tariffs. [contact-form-7] These exports were gauged at €40 billion in June after having reached a record high of €72 billion in March when U.S. importers brought in goods from the region ahead of the tariffs, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Monday...
California lawmakers are moving to tighten guardrails around the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare with a new bill aimed at curbing misleading representations by these systems. [contact-form-7] Assembly Bill 489, which was the subject of a Senate committee hearing on Monday (Aug. 18), would prohibit AI systems from presenting themselves as licensed healthcare...
When companies talk about adopting artificial intelligence (AI), most of the attention goes to the large language model such as OpenAI’s GPT-5 or Google’s Gemini 2.5. [contact-form-7] But for enterprises, what really matters on a day-to-day basis isn’t just the model itself; it’s inference. That’s the stage where the model is actually used to generate predictions, responses or insights...
The Clearing House reportedly saw volume increases in real-time payments on its RTP® Network on the Memorial Day and July 4 weekends. [contact-form-7] The network handled 860,268 transactions valued at $2.6 billion on Memorial Day, up from 667,061 transactions at $307.9 million during the holiday in 2024, and more than 1 million transactions valued at $4.9 billion on July 4, up from 773...
Talk of innovation in healthcare often centers on new diagnostic tools, surgical robotics or artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled patient monitoring. [contact-form-7] But across major health systems and independent providers alike, it’s the financial back office and billing departments where one of the industry’s most transformative shifts is underway. The reason? Advances in robotic...
Mastercard has launched a money movement partnership with Worldpay in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). [contact-form-7] The collaboration, announced Monday (Aug. 18), is designed to streamline money movement for consumers and businesses in the UAE through Mastercard Move. “Through this collaboration, Worldpay Push-to-Card solution will enable a wide range of fast, seamless domestic and...
Human resources and finance platform Workday suffered a data breach in which fraudsters accessed some information from its third-party customer relationship management (CRM) platform. [contact-form-7] The company was targeted by fraudsters in a social engineering campaign in which they contacted employees by text or phone, pretended to be from human resources or IT, and tricked...
Flexible payments firm/digital bank Klarna says it has landed $26 billion in new funding. [contact-form-7] That’s the result of a multi-year agreement with financial services and investment firm Nelnet, the company announced Friday (Aug. 15). Under this arrangement, Klarna will sell up to $26 billion in receivables from its “Pay in 4” installment program to Nelnet. “This is a landmark...